His disciples say to him, ‘If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.’
And Jehovah God saith, ‘Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper — as his counterpart.’
[Whoso] hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than [with] a woman of contentions and anger.
Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than [with] a woman of contentions and a house of company.
And he said to them, ‘All do not receive this word, but those to whom it hath been given;
‘And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.’
And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I [am];
forbidding to marry — to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,